EARTH DRILLING REAMER WITH REPLACEABLE BLADES
An earth drilling reamer has an elongated body having an outer surface and a plurality of blade mounting supports extending radially outwardly from the outer surface of the body. Each blade mounting support has a primary blade engagement positioned parallel to the outer surface and a leading blade angled from the outer surface to the primary blade engagement. A removable primary blade is detachably secured to the primary blade engagement.
The present invention relates to a reamer that is used to enlarge holes made by earth drilling equipment.
BACKGROUNDWhen installing utility lines a pilot borehole is made under a river or other natural or man made obstacle. A series of reamers are then used to incrementally increase the size of the pilot borehole.
SUMMARYThere is provided an earth drilling reamer, comprising an elongated body having an outer surface, and a plurality of blade mounting supports extending radially outwardly from the outer surface of the body. Each blade mounting support has a primary blade engagement positioned parallel to the outer surface and a leading blade angled from the outer surface to the primary blade engagement. A removable primary blade is detachably secured to the primary blade engagement.
These and other features will become more apparent from the following description in which reference is made to the appended drawings, the drawings are for the purpose of illustration only and are not intended to be in any way limiting, wherein:
An earth drilling reamer generally identified by reference numeral 10 will now be described with reference to
Structure and Relationship of Parts:
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While leading blade 22 may be part of blade mounting support 16, in a preferred embodiment, leading blade 22 is also removable as with primary blade 20, as shown in
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Operation/Assembly:
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In use, earth drilling reamer 10 may be operated by rotating body 12 and pushing and or pulling. It may be desireable to provide a variety of sizes of blades 20 and 22, and primary blade engagements 18 if necessary to cut different sizes of boreholes, or to progressively increase the size of a borehole. Alternatively, blades 20 and 22 may be designed for different soil types. When blades 20 and 22 become worn out or broken, they are replaced by removing pins 32 and inserting new blades 20 and 22, as described above.
In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be one and only one of the elements.
The following claims are to understood to include what is specifically illustrated and described above, what is conceptually equivalent, and what can be obviously substituted. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various adaptations and modifications of the described embodiments can be configured without departing from the scope of the claims. The illustrated embodiments have been set forth only as examples and should not be taken as limiting the invention. It is to be understood that, within the scope of the following claims, the invention may be practiced other than as specifically illustrated and described.
Claims
1. An earth drilling reamer, comprising:
- an elongated body having an outer surface;
- a plurality of blade mounting supports extending radially outwardly from the outer surface of the body, each blade mounting support having a primary blade engagement positioned parallel to the outer surface and a leading blade angled from the outer surface to the primary blade engagement;
- a removable primary blade detachably secured to the primary blade engagement.
2. The earth drilling reamer of claim 1, wherein a leading blade engagement is angled from the outer surface of the body to the primary blade engagement and the leading blade is detachably secured to the leading blade engagement.
3. The earth drilling reamer of claim 1, wherein the leading blade engagement is comprised of a track that terminates at the primary blade engagement, the leading blade has an engagement that engages the track and the engagement of the primary blade with the primary blade engagement prevents the leading blade from being removed from the track.
4. The earth drilling reamer of claim 1, wherein the primary blade engagement is comprised of a female receptacle and the primary blade has a male member which is received in the female receptacle, with a locking assembly being provided to prevent the male member from being withdrawn from the female receptacle.
Type: Application
Filed: Jan 8, 2010
Publication Date: Jul 15, 2010
Patent Grant number: 8201647
Inventor: Mike Zulak (Spruce Grove)
Application Number: 12/684,384
International Classification: E21B 10/633 (20060101); E21B 10/00 (20060101); E21B 10/26 (20060101);